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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

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She was stronger alone.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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An annuity is a very serious business.

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